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EDWARD BOK LEE |
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Nationality: Asian American Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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ED BOK LEE's first book, Real Karaoke People (New Rivers Press), was a recipient of the Many Voices Project (MVP) Award and "contains outrage. . .tenderness [and] searing honesty. . .vital to the American landscape. The vitality of the country, its capacity to absorb the rich and the strange, is nowhere clearer. . ." (San Francisco Chronicle). Lee attended kindergarten in Seoul, grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota, and has since lived in a half-dozen cities around the world. He has studied Slavics at the Universities of California-Berkeley, Minnesota, Kazakh State-Almaty, Indiana University, and holds an MFA from Brown University. Various writing awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Loft Literary Center, SASE, and the Jerome Foundation.
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Plays by Edward Bok Lee
Athens County | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brown University | 1997 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73937 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
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Synopsis: | A farce, where Mommy Kills Daddy. | |||||
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El Santo Americano | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20423 | |||
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Genre: | 10-15 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | Clay, a washed-up professional wrestler, kidnaps his estranged wife Evalana and their child, and heads for the border in his Galaxy 500. He hopes to re-invent himself in Mexico as a champion wrestler, and thereby save his failing family from certain doom. An unexpected rest stop in the middle of the desert throws a monkey wrench in his plans, when Evalana finds herself with an opportunity to escape -- but not before Clay articulates his love for her and their child one last time, revealing the full beauty and ferocity of his soul unlike ever before. Will she go, or stay? Or will something more mysterious happen in the darkest heart and hour of this magical vision of the post-American Dream? | |||||
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Glow Iii | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mu Performing Arts | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73938 | |||
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Synopsis: | At a time when soldiers lessen the effects of post traumatic stress disorder by the practice of first maiming animals, and McDonalds offers a popular Spirit Burger, a shape-shifting cast of Everyday People attempt to navigate their troubled lives through futuristic dysfunction. Ethics, Philosophy, Pop-psychology, Race, Socio-economics and Religion all serve as launching pads into the absurd. | |||||
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Leavetaker | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73939 | |||
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Passage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater Mu | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73940 | |||
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Synopsis: | The story follows a daughter's return to her homeland to visit her father, who is near death. But before the old man can be released from this world, he must clear up secrets and business with his daughter. It's a mythic version of the need to reconcile and remember the past, Kim said. | |||||
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St. Petersburg | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Public | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73941 | |||
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Whorled | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73942 | |||
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Wooing Annie | ||
| 1st Produced: | East West Players, LA | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110198 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | Welcome to L.A! Now go home. For Canadian Annie Woo, it's hard to leave a place with "spicy kimchi" like Josh and "green tea and ham" like Mason. Should she stay or should she go? | |||||
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